Comments on: Ask The Audience: How Do You Like Your Toilet Paper?

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:27:38 +0000

just think hanging over, specially if it is ripped raggedly looks awful, it makes a toilet look untidy. I change any I find the other way to hang under, unless it’s my home of course because I’m the only person able to put up a new toilet roll.

By: Judy

Judy — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:29:15 +0000

The only time I care which way the roll is done is when there is a toddler around…. when there are toddlers around, placing the roll on so it feeds from UNDER the roll saves an awful lot of waste as when the toddler inevitably spins the roll towards themselves, the toilet paper doesn’t unroll!

By: ZenOfJazz

ZenOfJazz — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:59:55 +0000

Toilet Paper Preferences… In the bathroom, not in the trees.
(proof I’ve apparently grown up)

By: Canadian

Canadian — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:47:21 +0000

Like Rebecca, I feel so strongly that toilet paper should go over the top that I sometimes change it in relatives’ houses.

By: ThatBobbieGirl

ThatBobbieGirl — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:48:52 +0000

After watching half a roll of “over the top” toilet paper unroll itself onto the floor after one tug from a toddler, I have been an “under” gal, at least at home. I swear, it was like watching a perpetual motion machine.

Some TP holders, especially the double-roll institutional ones where the second roll drops down after the first is *mostly* gone work much better in “under” mode. Placing it with the paper coming from underneath lifts the roll up a bit when tugged, allowing it to unroll easily. If installed with the paper coming over the top, you have to lift up the roll with one hand and turn it with the other, to keep it from catching on the remains of the lower roll. It’s a physics thing.

And now, after typing all this, I am realizing that this is an issue I have thought about way too much in my life.

By: Mom of three

Mom of three — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:42:52 +0000

Huh?
Lighten up. I don’t ground them over TP. I embarrass them enough that they remember to replace it from then on. In fact, they are so ingrained that you replace it, that they just naturally do it.
You obviously don’t have teenagers.

By: huh?

huh? — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:04:21 +0000

Grounding kids over TP? I’d hate to see what happens when they don’t make their beds….do they lose a finger?

By: Fortune Cookies

Fortune Cookies — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:01:32 +0000

I used to work at a hotel, the house keepers would put it over the top and fold it into fancy little corners, cute, but it had to do with some studies that said that over the top actually makes people use less. I’ve also read that men prefer over the top while women prefer under, but I’d don’t know how much I’d trust that. For me, I could care less, as long as there’s some within reach, preferably two ply, and not that cheap linty stuff either.

By: judy haley (coffeejitters)

judy haley (coffeejitters) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:54:33 +0000

I’m just thrilled when its hung on the wall

if I change the roll it goes over the top, but I am perfectly capable of using the toilet paper even if it’s installed upside down. I’m just glad it’s not on the floor or the back of the toilet.

By: Mom of three

Mom of three — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:10:50 +0000

Suzanne,

When I potty trained my three, I taught them three things.

How to wipe themselves.
How to hang the toilet paper.
How to wash their hands.